Population growth in Malaysia

From 1960 to 2016 the population of Malaysia increased from 8.16 million to 31.19 million people. This is a growth by 282.3 percent in 56 years. The highest increase Malaysia was recorded in 1962 with 3.26%. The smallest increase in 2016 with 1.51%.

In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 145.3 percent.

Birth- and deathrate in Malaysia

Population growth is the result of the birth rate, the mortality rate and the migration rate. The example of the year 2015 in the graph: The population in Malaysia increased by about 495,000 inhabitants. In the same year, the death rate was 4.9 per 1000 people (~ 147,000 deaths) and the birth rate was 17.1 per 1000 people (~ 517,000 births). As a result, around 125,000 inhabitants have to be added by migration from other countries.

The development of births and deaths is displayed in the following graph. All data refer to births or deaths per 1000 inhabitants.